Revelation 14:16

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

And He who sat on the cloud swung His sickle onto the earth, and its crop was harvested.

Cross References

Matthew 16:27

For the Son of man will return in the splendor of His Father, accompanied by His angels. Then He will reward or punish every person in proportion to what he has done [with his life].

Revelation 14:14

And I looked, and there in front of me I saw a white cloud, and on the cloud was seated Someone who looked like the Son of man [See Dan. 7:13]. He had a golden crown on His head and a sharp sickle in His hand.

Revelation 14:15

Then another angel [i.e., the fourth] came out of the Temple, calling out with a loud voice to Him who was sitting on the cloud, “Use your sharp sickle to reap [a harvest] because it is harvest time, and the crop of the earth is ripe.”

Revelation 14:17

Then another angel [i.e., the fifth] came out of the Temple which is in heaven, and he also had a sharp sickle.

Revelation 14:19

So, the angel swung his sickle to earth and gathered the [grapes from the] vines of the earth and threw them into the huge winepress of God’s anger.